The “Link” visual element allows one to open an internal page in a “new tab” Why can’t we do the same when opening an internal page from a workflow?

As explained here https://bubble.io/reference#Actions.OpenURL , it’s because of browsers popup blockers. Nothing we can do about that.

@macro101 You can use a HTML element with target:_blank function and style the HTML as a button: for example: <a style="background-color: #000; padding: 5px; border-radius: 9px; color: #fff; text-decoration: none" href="https://www.bubble.is" target="_blank">bubble</a>

Hi Emmanuel, I am struggling with the current approach, as I think the problem is twofold: most modern browsers clearly indicate when a popup is blocked and make it easy for the user to override and allow tabs/popups from a website if the URL is provided by an API, for the Link approach, Bubb…

I agree. I feel like this is incredible outdated. @emmanuel - is it possible to revisit this? It’s the number one complaint I receive from people.

Had a client ask if we could do this today. Wanted to bring it back up, so grateful for everything y’all do and would love if this got added to the queue.

It’s possible using the Link element.

Can you use that along with an icon? I am trying to avoid the text specifically.

What I end up doing is to put an icon, then add a link element on top of the icon, then group them both together. I delete all the text in the link element, but have it target the URL I want to navigate to. It’s hacky, but works perfectly. Others may have found a way to use an icon instead of text …

That is really good to know! Thank you @andrewgassen

Call page in a new tab

Need help

kvtepov June 16, 2019, 4:06am 12

Hey everyone! This solution work’s just right External link in workflow to open new tab

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Call page in a new tab

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